Lincoln and the politics of slavery
Subtitle: the other Thirteenth Amendment and the struggle to save the union
By: Daniel W. Crofts
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781469627311
Subjects: United States; History; Slaves; Emancipation; Law and legislation; Slavery; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the bread pill; title: The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, and the problem of the Constitution; title: Origins of the other Thirteenth Amendment. Mutual misconceptions ; The Seward amendment ; The Corwin amendment; title: Debating the other Thirteenth Amendment. Reaching across the abyss ; The unfazed and the alarmed ; The amendment assessed; title: The abortive launch. Congress acts ; The president speaks ; The ratification fizzle; title: Epilogue 1. James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment; title: Epilogue 2. John A. Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment.